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51 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
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  1. Alternative Press
    80
    The release does establish Simple Plan as on e of the most consistent acts making music today. [Feb 2008, p.109]
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  2. Billboard
    80
    Simple Plan is a shameless little heatseeker, which isn't much of a musical problem. Provided you're after a good time, several cuts make excellent use of keyboard bleeps and drum-machine beats.
  3. Amazon.com
    80
    Simple Plan's plan--to get you bouncing, bobbing, and otherwise grooving--is still simple. And like all uncomplicated strategies, it's still remarkably effective.
  4. All Music Guide
    70
    The whining hasn't let up (see 'No Love' and 'Generation'), but the fun hasn't either. Credit the producers.
  5. Boston Globe
    60
    The group's third full-length album, the simply titled Simple Plan, offers glimpses of something more, but invariably falls into to the same old pattern.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    42
    All things considered, this Plan to update their sound winds up being too Simple.
  7. Blender
    40
    Album three aims for maturity, but the results are stunted.
  8. Q Magazine
    40
    Simple Plan continue to plough forwards wuth a punk template of such box-ticking efficiency that they at times resemble automatons. [Mar 2008, p.111]
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  9. Rolling Stone
    40
    There are some decent pop moments: 'When I'm Gone' is a seize-the-day anthem with a cathartic refrain. But most songs, like the angry barnburner 'The End,' are barely distinguishable from a dozen or so other Warped Tour bands.
  10. Spin
    40
    Like Good Charlotte and Fall Out Boy before them, these multiplantinum Canadian heartthrobs have finally covered up their pop-punk roots completely, on their fourth album. [Feb 2008, p.99]
  11. The A.V. Club
    25
    Think Lavigne's "Girlfriend" without the hooks, but with a discernable degree of emo introspection.
  12. NOW Magazine
    20
    This isn't music so much as it is economic exploitation of a demographic.
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6.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 33 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
  3. Negative: 4 out of 19
  1. SimonB
    4
    I got to listen to the album personally. I expected to be blown away from how much it'd suck and be the repetitive drenching pop the latter ones were. Instead, I actually saw some form of change in the band. A few songs were good, the others took the whole basis of the singer's self-worth over anyone else. "Why is everybody complaining?" cries Pierre in just about every single song, like he's not part of the problems surrounding him. And please don't tell me the album's good because "they made it to be this way", because I'll just tell you you've become a fanboy or fangirl of a generic pop culture. Good SOUND doesn't make good music. Simple Plan's still a teen girl band for girls who need attention their parents clearly don't.… Full Review »
  2. BarryC.
    3
    An album for the sake of an album. A new attempt at some strange shell of a once great genre called punk. The album is completely uninteresting, and downright mind-numbing at times.… Full Review »
  3. JoeM
    9
    This is a brilliant album. I think that it is their best album yet.
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